Book description
Inside, Outside, and Online provides practical advice and inspiration
for building community with your library. Based on a scan of the
community and technology environments that libraries operate within,
related literature, and the practical experiences of hundreds of library
staff actively building communities through their work, the book
provides much-needed insights into the essential elements of community
building through Identifying user needs and designing services to meet
those needs Engaging communities with service selection, creation, and
iteration Utilizing practical new technologies Whatever your role, and
whatever size or type of library, the principles outlined here can
support anyone working to build a strong community of engaged,
interested, and satisfied library users. "[Hill] adroitly draws
on scholarship and research, examples and interviews, to create a plan
for libraries that is as sharply focused as it is quietly urgent. By
succeeding even more as community builders, libraries, Hill believes,
can become sustainable-meaning that the public can't live without them.
Public librarians would do well to use this book as a roadmap, at least
for the next decade." Chrystie Hill is a librarian, writer, and
community builder. After a short stint at the Seattle Public Library,
she started It Girl Consulting, a small venture that helps libraries use
online tools to build communities online. In 2003 Chrystie joined
WebJunction where she serves as their director of community services.
Chrystie is a frequent presenter at library meetings and conferences,
and her articles have appeared in JASIST, Library Journal, and RUSQ. In
2007, Chrystie was nominated as a Library Journal "Mover and
Shaker". Chrystie's undergraduate degree is in biology and
psychology, she holds an M. A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her MLIS
is from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she lives with her
desk and a laptop.
